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Tornado in Birmingham, England! by user27089 on 07-29-2005 at 07:46 AM

Did anybody else hear about the tornado that tore through Birmingham in the afternoon yesterday, I was watching it on the news last night. A lot of buildings are going to have to be demolished, and people will have to find new homes. The insurance won't cover it either, because it was an "act of God", so the people are basically screwed if they don't have much money, which a lot of them don't.

I know it wasn't that bad, but it is very strange for a tornado to occur in England...

You can find some information here: BBC News.

Here are some pictures: Direct slideshow.

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Luckily, nobody was killed only around 20 - 30 injured.

It's good news about the IRA aswell, at least they're going back to their old ways, they've changed too much, they only ever used to be about freedom, never about terrorism, my Grandad hated them when they started bombing. (Long story).

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by mwe99 on 07-29-2005 at 08:00 AM

Yeah i heard it this morning, its rather erm destructive for a UK tornado lol

Looting has been a problem too, what kinda of stupid people would loot a house after a event like that?! How low can you get :dodgy:

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by user27089 on 07-29-2005 at 08:03 AM

There are some really sad people in the world though that would do stuff like that, like chavs.

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by Anubis on 07-29-2005 at 08:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by traxor
There are some really sad people in the world though that would do stuff like that, like chavs.
As soon as mwe99 said
quote:
Originally posted by mwe99
what kinda of stupid people would loot a house after a event like that?
The word chavs instantly popped into my head, seriously they are getting to be a real problem...however not all chavs are bad, its only the minority of morons who have a very limited amount of thought\morals\ethics.
Shame about the Tornado though, the worst the north's got is a lot of wind and rain, but the weather surely has been funky in the UK this year.
RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 09:16 AM

trax, youve got to remember, this was 15 minutes down the road from us :S

and we felt none of it...

scary stuff...

sucks how people are getting robbed...

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by Purity on 07-29-2005 at 09:20 AM

Weird, I NEVER hear of tornados on the east side of the world.....

Edit: btw, you spelled tornado wrong. :p

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by kao on 07-29-2005 at 09:27 AM

traxor, tornado*

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by ayjay on 07-29-2005 at 09:31 AM

I wanna see a pic of the actual tornado apart from the rubbish one on the BBC site lol

RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by Purity on 07-29-2005 at 09:32 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ajd
I wanna see a pic of the actual tornado apart from the rubbish one on the BBC site lol
ummmmm ditto! :cheesy:
RE: Tornadoe in Birmingham, England! by user27089 on 07-29-2005 at 10:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ajd
I wanna see a pic of the actual tornado apart from the rubbish one on the BBC site lol

So do I, I only saw clouds and stuff.

quote:
Originally posted by Kao
traxor, tornado*

I knew somebody would mention that.
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by spokes on 07-29-2005 at 10:08 AM

WTF!? the weather in the uk is really starting to annoy me!

june and start of july were boiling hot when we are in school sweating like mad in school uniform

and as soon as summer holidays are here it starts raining!!!

and as for a tornado in the uk :/

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by absorbation on 07-29-2005 at 10:37 AM

omg i dreamt about it last night, dodgy dream :dodgy: lucky i was in sutton town center for the day :P

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by FrozenDaggers on 07-29-2005 at 02:58 PM

I wish the weather would sort it's self out.

And I can't believe I didnt know about this :-s

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 03:46 PM

you can see how are world is getting fucked up now cant you :S


snow in spring..
boiling weathing in winter...
Tornados :S

(since when do we get tornados)

something just aint right..


i'm waiting for the volcaneo to appear in cardiff (die leejeffery)

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Eljay on 07-29-2005 at 03:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Stigmata
you can see how are world is getting fucked up now cant you :S


snow in spring..
boiling weathing in winter...
Tornados :S

(since when do we get tornados)

something just aint right..


i'm waiting for the volcaneo to appear in cardiff (die leejeffery)

umm a volcano cant just appear, but swansea boys never were known to have much intelligence..... :refuck:
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by -dt- on 07-29-2005 at 03:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
umm a volcano cant just appear, but swansea boys never were known to have much intelligence.....
how much do you want to bet.  they can just appear and have appeared in places like in farmers land etc.
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by evil_panda on 07-29-2005 at 04:01 PM

My granny lives in spark hill she got the full blow of it but she okay...her fire place lept out from the wall though...and she said that the sky went a very black colour and she knew something was wrong but then the house started to shake like a while back when there was that earth quake...so she then turned on the news and she saw what was going on people were told to stay in there houses unless they were right in the center of it and if so to get as far away as possible.

It's quite scary really what mother nature can to to the world...

RE: RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by FrozenDaggers on 07-29-2005 at 04:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by -dt-
quote:
Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
umm a volcano cant just appear, but swansea boys never were known to have much intelligence.....
how much do you want to bet.  they can just appear and have appeared in places like in farmers land etc.


There could be hidden one's. The Ground might start growing.

I'm scared. Everything's going to be like The Day After Tomorrow. That's some scary shiz :(
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by spokes on 07-29-2005 at 09:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by -dt-
quote:
Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
umm a volcano cant just appear, but swansea boys never were known to have much intelligence.....
how much do you want to bet.  they can just appear and have appeared in places like in farmers land etc.

i seen a video about that in geography!
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 09:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by FrozenDaggers
There could be hidden one's. The Ground might start growing.

I'm scared. Everything's going to be like The Day After Tomorrow. That's some scary shiz :(


just what i was thinking :s
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Pipish on 07-29-2005 at 10:45 PM

A tornado in england that would have to be the first time ive ever heard of that:|

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by user27089 on 07-29-2005 at 10:47 PM

There was one in the 1970s/80s if nobody has heard of it, they're hear  like every decade :).

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 10:50 PM

weve had earthquakes aswell

there was one in dudley

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by user27089 on 07-29-2005 at 10:51 PM

There've been the flash floods aswell all over Britain.

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 10:51 PM

heat waves :S

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Purity on 07-29-2005 at 10:58 PM

I honestly think that the world is gonna go down hill from now on and all of man kind will be whiped out in 20 years..... even look at this society.

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by Stigmata on 07-29-2005 at 11:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Purity
I honestly think that the world is gonna go down hill from now on and all of man kind will be whiped out in 20 years..... even look at this society.


agreed.

the weather will begin to deteriate,
terrorists will grow at large,
everyone will go into mass panic
no-one will trust the police
gang warfare,
large families sticking together and looking after themselves,
stock exchange will become useless,
money won't be used..


survival of the fittest
RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by lopardo on 07-30-2005 at 02:36 AM

Center of Argentina, plain Winter... and 25ºC! :dodgy:

(anyways, I hate cold so I like it to be 25ºC... but it's weird, it's Winter here... last week it was 5ºC).

RE: Tornado in Birmingham, England! by saralk on 07-30-2005 at 09:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Stigmata
quote:
Originally posted by Purity
I honestly think that the world is gonna go down hill from now on and all of man kind will be whiped out in 20 years..... even look at this society.


agreed.

the weather will begin to deteriate,
terrorists will grow at large,
everyone will go into mass panic
no-one will trust the police
gang warfare,
large families sticking together and looking after themselves,
stock exchange will become useless,
money won't be used..


survival of the fittest

thats probably what people said during the 1900s, and i think they had more reason to worry.

From their point of view, millions of people were dying because so many countries were fighting each other, we were all tearing each other to shreds. Then during the cold war when the USSR and America had enough nukes to destroy the world several times over, and the two countries were existing in such a delicatly balanced situation that the tiniest thing to throw it off balance could lead to full out nuclear war (i.e. Cuba).

I think that in the future, we will move away from people being divided geographically, but people being divided idealogically, for example, people in cities tend to have a liberal policital stance, and people in the country have a conservative stance. So Londoners have more in common with New Yorkers than they do with people from the countryside.